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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Um, Adder has doubled down on his absolute position several times. Not only is anyone voting GOP today a racist, but all of our grandparents were racists.
And you've been angling to make the argument that, using impact as the deciding metric, anyone voting for a conservative is a racist. The problem is, you've a respect for basic logic and common sense, so you understand that as emotionally attractive as the argument might be, it's absurd. I don't think Adder has your discipline.
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Good grief, here I go again.
Adder is correct. You are wrong. Your constant inability to understand racism as a
system which benefits one group of people over others because all you can see is the good-bad binary that requires actual malice before one can be labeled as a racist is a huge problem.
We live in a racist society set up to benefit white people in every possible way. Continuing to vote to keep that system in place is a vote for that racist system. One party has made it clear that that is what they are about. Voting for politicians who fight tooth and nail against fixing the problems with the system is a vote for racism. Requiring a smoking gun before admitting any action is racist--as opposed to looking at how an action, decision, policy, or law
actually impacts people, is racist.
For example, you can talk about how a voter ID law is race neutral til you're blue in the face. If the law addresses a nonexistent fraud issue and reduces black voters by multiples over white voters, that law is racist. Period. Impact. It doesn't even matter if the person who drew up the law loves it because it reduces the number of Democrats,
because the impact is racist. This is the most obvious example I can give you, but there are a million examples of this type of thing that fall in different places on the systemic racist spectrum in this country--application of death penalty, drug laws, San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, etc.
And this is just the institutional stuff. If you are a partner and you only work with associates with whom you identify (mutual friends, both like sailing, grew up in your township), and you end up only working with white men, that's racism. You don't need to sit behind your desk, rubbing your hands together trying to figure out how to keep the black man down. The impact of your "unintentional" actions is racist.
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